WE MUST HELP THE POLICE SAVE LIVES - Part 4 Our Children Communities, families, laws, entire cultures do everything they can to protect children from the harsh world. In fact,... read more →
A checkered past As the flags above highlight, our country has a checkered past as it relates to blacks and whites. Public Enemy in the song Louder than a Bomb... read more →
We MUST help the police save lives – part 3 We must help the police save lives. If we don’t help officers protect themselves, they will continue to die... read more →
We MUST help the police save lives – Part 2 If we don’t help the police the killings will not decrease. We have an American crisis that needs regular citizens,... read more →
An article in the Washington Post, Fatal Shooting by on-duty officers: An analysis, highlights that between 2005 – 2015, 54 officers were charged for fatally shooting a citizen. In order... read more →
We now are receiving reliable data related to police shootings and citizens. It was not until 2015 that dependable data on police shootings began to be captured completely. The data is... read more →
The number of police deaths from shootings have drastically decreased over the past 40 years. In 1973 the firearm related deaths of police peaked at 153 officers. Currently, on average about... read more →
In December of 2015, Dr. Nancy Krieger, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, published a paper, “Police Killings and Police Death Are Public Health Data and Can... read more →
The data is in - approximately 1160 people were killed by the police in 2016 - about 3.1 people per day. A disproportionate number of those killed were black. Blacks... read more →
5 Facts About Police We Should All Know: More than 1500 reported police killings were documented in 2015. Of the 1500 police killings 35 % of the of blacks killed... read more →
